Six years ago, Cathy Nance had to have open heart surgery. Later, she had kidney cancer. Because of poor health and inability to work, she became homeless, until she was helped by Harlan Countians for a Healthy Community. “I worked all my life. If anyone had told me that later on I would be in the shape I was in, I wouldn’t have believed it,” she confesses. “So it can happen before you know it.”
Family nurse practitioner Beverly May, of the Kentucky Mountain Health Alliance, treats many patients with chronic diseases. She says the typical patient hasn’t had any care for years, and that every week, people walk in who have no idea they have serious health problems.
Health care has to be looked at in context, according to Annie Fox and Teana Burns of “Harlan Countians for a Healthy Community.” Fox says: “We still have issues in rural America with sanitation, potable water, electricity. Until you deal with those things, you’re always going to have health care issues.”
Gerry Roll helped organize Hazard-Perry County Community Ministries, which – despite its name – has no religious mission. She says people don’t understand the problems in southeastern Kentucky: “You can get whatever you need as far as traditional medical care goes. Yet we have the highest levels of chronic disease in the nation. So when I hear people talking about access to health care being a problem, I am livid.”
Microsoft has kept few secrets about its upcoming Dashboard update, which will give Xbox Live Gold members Twitter, Facebook, and Last.fm integration on November 17.
“Xbox Live’s differentiator has always been our community, and we’ve already seen a tremendous response to these features in our public preview. It’s the community that drives us forward and allows us to pioneer new ways of connecting people through the entertainment they love,” Xbox Live general manager Marc Whitten said.
But accidentally leaked screenshots of Facebook running natively on the PlayStation 3 have caused a little more of a stir among the video game media. As usual, this is because of the element of mystery involved, and also Sony’s track record of giving out for free what Microsoft charges for. Sony has not yet issued any comments on the leaked images, but Eurogamer today said that there will be more information on them “very shortly.”
Betanews sent an inquiry to SCEA this afternoon, and will report on its response if and when it comes.
One of the only downsides to owning a Zune HD instead of an iPod is the lack of speaker docks. There simply isn’t that many available and the ones for the previous Zune’s aren’t compatible. But Kicker knows what’s up and just released firmware to make its $249 ZK500 Zune HD friendly. But there is fine print involved and you can’t update the system yourself.
Here’s the thing: you have to ship the system to company to have the firmware installed. But if you bought the ZK500 after the Zune HD was released, you’re good. The company will pay the necessary shipping cost to have the update completed.
However if you bought it before, you’re going to have to pay $40 to have the firmware installed. Ridiculous? Yeah, it kind of is.
Either way though, the system will not output high-def from the Zune HD because of the older dock connector used. But I guess if you spent the cash on the new Zune HD, you may as well spend another $40 to make your older speaker dock compatible.
Ever since Apple launched its App Store barely 16 months ago, we’ve paid a lot of attention — indeed, too much — to the number of applications it contains. As the App Store crossed the 100,000 title barrier last week, it occurred to me that the bigger this number gets, the less it actually means.
I get that Apple has won the sheer-number sweepstakes. I appreciate that no other mobile storefront can even come close. I also understand how broad software availability (in terms of sheer numbers as well as ease of acquisition) has helped fuel the growth of the iPhone/iPod touch universe. I just think we attach way too much importance to this single figure, and it distorts our ability to understand ultimate value to end users and developers alike.
So many titles, not enough room
Never mind that no one person could ever assess, let alone install and use, anything approaching a broad cross-section of this ever expanding library. Ignore the fact that the vast majority of these titles are near-dormant, gathering dust while the masses pay attention to newer, higher-profile offerings. Forget that this number is bloated by countless apps that replicate bodily functions, play visual party tricks, and otherwise consume time that could be productively spent…I don’t know, composing e-mails to your mother.
Does the world really need fifty different ways to display the time? Or forty-five weather forecasting apps or a couple of hundred alarm clocks? At what point does the sheer size of the library become so large that successive additions become meaningless? I accept that there’s a certain value in choice — that in a tiny library, users would be ill-served by a product category with only a couple of feature-limited, badly integrated choices. A larger playground increases the size of the app-specific talent pool and ensures someone looking for an alarm clock will eventually find what he or she needs.
But there’s choice and there’s choice. When neighborhood supermarkets replaced the corner store, we all benefitted from greater choice and more competitive pricing. Economies of scale will do that, as stores that buy in larger quantities have greater buying power than those with smaller inventories. But as plain old supermarkets were supplanted by big-box megastores, we ended up with too much of a good thing. A thirty-minute cruise through the aisles easily doubled or tripled as many of us got lost in the cavernous new temples of conspicuous consumption. We’d stand in front of the ketchup shelves, unable to decide between the ten brands, fifteen different sizes, and packaging combinations, and even colors…remember green and purple? We’d end up with more than we needed, or stuff we hadn’t intended on buying in the first place.
Apple’s App Store has gone well beyond the big-box stage. Shopping there isn’t the focused, quick and direct process it once was, and by the time most of us are done loading up on new code, we inevitably end up with stuff we didn’t want or need in the first place. Worse for Apple, it can’t simply build a bigger building to house all its new inventory. Computer and iPhone screens aren’t getting bigger, and new and existing titles find themselves fighting for an ever dimmer slice of virtual storefront for consumers’ increasingly ADHD-infused attention.
It hurts developers as well as consumers. We wrestle with the challenge of finding what we want without pulling our hair out in the process, while developers simply try to avoid getting lost in the ever growing ocean of offerings — assuming, of course, that they can get past Apple’s app approval process to get into that ocean in the first place.
I hesitate to blame Apple, as it’s simply riding the wave of the most buzzworthy mobile device to hit consumers’ radar since Ford’s Model T. As long as we’re content to measure the iPhone platform’s worth by the number of available apps, Apple is perfectly content to trumpet each major milestone, and absolutely justified in doing so. For a company that has long prided itself on simple, easily understood methods for users, nothing’s easier to articulate than a big number that dwarfs all competitors, and keeps getting bigger on a seemingly exponential path.
Even if, from where I sit, it’s an ultimately meaningless number, it remains a marketer’s dream, so don’t expect Apple to stop flogging it.
New ways to measure
Still, it leaves the door open for measures of value that reflect actual utility. Google’s Android platform may sport a software library that’s an order of magnitude smaller than Apple’s, but Google doesn’t live in the same download-and-use universe that Apple does. Its core strength lies in its expanding universe of increasingly integrated Web-based services. And successive generations of its mobile platform will reflect this shifting reality, especially as 3G wipes GSM and CDMA off the map, and 4G-based technologies like LTE move into the mainstream.
It may seem laughable now given AT&T’s and other carriers’ troubles with network coverage of any kind, but at some point in the not-too-distant future, mobile bandwidth will be so abundant that the same paradigms of always-on Web services that we take for granted on our conventional laptops and desktops will seamlessly apply to our smartphones as well. And the download-and-use metaphor will fade.
So although the size of Google’s library currently places it in a firm second place in the mobile online store rankings and gives it a fair degree of street cred, I doubt Google hangs on the daily figures as much as Apple does given the sea change that will fundamentally change how we get work (and play) done on mobile devices.
For now, though, we still measure our devices by the number of apps available for download, and we continue to focus on quantity when handicapping the various platforms against each other. As mobile infrastructure matures and consumers improve their ability to assess the value proposition of a platform’s complete feature set — and not just its simple library size — simply having the biggest of anything may no longer be enough to sustain interest. Bigger, after all, isn’t always better.
Carmi Levy is a Canadian-based independent technology analyst and journalist still trying to live down his past life leading help desks and managing projects for large financial services organizations. He comments extensively in a wide range of media, and works closely with clients to help them leverage technology and social media tools and processes to drive their business.
HP announced today that it is acquiring 3Com, makers of network switching, routing, and security solutions, for $2.7 billion in cash (at 7.90 per share). Both boards have already approved the transaction.
HP says the combination of these two companies will transform the networking industry and "underscore HP’s next-generation data center strategy." The company believes this will help customers simplify networks and improve IT service delivery capabilities.
"Companies are looking for ways to break free from the business limitations imposed by a networking paradigm that has been dominated by a single vendor," said Dave Donatelli, executive vice president and general manager, Enterprise Servers and Networking, HP. "By acquiring 3Com, we are accelerating the execution of our Converged Infrastructure strategy and bringing disruptive change to the networking industry. By combining HP ProCurve offerings with 3Com’s extensive set of solutions, we will enable customers to build a next-generation network infrastructure that supports customer needs from the edge of the network to the heart of the data center."
HP’s Ethernet switching offerings will see a significant expansion as a result from the acquisition. It will also add routing solutions, and greatly strengthen HP’s position in China. They will also be adding a large research and development team in that country.
"Our extensive product line and innovative technology together with HP’s breadth and scale will expand our global opportunity," said 3Com CEO Bob Mao. "3Com’s networking products are based on a modern architecture which has been designed to offer better performance, require less power and eliminate administrative complexity when compared against current network offerings. Our products are enterprise proven and widely deployed in the world’s largest banks, manufacturers, Internet service providers, public utilities and retailers."
HP will be getting 3Com’s security solutions, which include its TippingPoint line, which is apparently used among 30% of Fortune 1000 companies.
The deal is still subject to domestic and foreign regulatory approval, as well as approval from 3Com’s stockholders. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of next year.
As of next Tuesday, November 17, you’ll be able to access Twitter and Facebook on your Xbox 360. The software update is free, like previous updates, and also includes Last.fm and Zune video compatibility. “What are you doing?” “Losing to 12-year-olds in Modern Warfare 2 over and over again! Not fun.”
The idea, I guess, is that you’ll be able let your friends know just how much fun you’re having while playing the latest game, or streaming the latest Netflix release, without having to go through the trouble of whipping out your phone or walking over to your computer. I see it as a convenience and nothing more. It may also mean that there’s nothing you can to do stop Twitter’s worldwide dominance.
This is what the Twitter interface looks like in motion:
Note that the Xbox 360 isn’t the only video game console whence you can tweet or alter your Facebook status. The PS3 and Wii come with a built-in Web browser, and a stand-alone Facebook interface for the PS3 was leaked just yesterday.
And while the Twitter and Facebook support will get the most attention, I think it’s the Zune HD support that’s most interesting. Say what you will about the Zune HD—Devin liked it, and I went out and bought it I was so impressed—but the idea of an instant-on, HD, 5.1 surround system movie service certainly intrigues me. Of course, its success now depends on what type of movies are released for it.
The largest and widest ranging PC technology dispute, perhaps in the industry’s history, came to an abrupt end this morning with Intel and AMD agreeing to set aside most of their differences, and all of their legal disputes. Is this a signal to the various litigators in the information technology industry that litigation is no longer the way to go, that it’s too expensive a way for a company to continue protecting its market position?
Betanews caught up with our contributing analyst Carmi Levy, by way of his trusty BlackBerry, on a train headed to Toronto this morning.
Carmi Levy: If litigation isn’t too expensive from a fiscal perspective, then it certainly is onerous from a corporate attention perspective. Specifically, getting involved in years-long, tit-for-tat pitched legal battles that spill across global borders can often be the catalyst for losing focus on core competencies. While lawsuit-laden companies inevitably claim their legal processes do not impede strategic planning or day-to-day operations, it’s clear that they’re being overly optimistic. Litigation is a distraction. Never-ending litigation can split a company’s focus for just long enough that it can easily lose touch with the needs of its market.
In a post-recessionary world, organizations are more vulnerable than ever to the consequences of this form of split focus.
Scott Fulton: Under the terms of this morning’s agreement, Intel didn’t have to acknowledge any wrongdoing, and it can continue offering volume rebates so long as they’re not exclusionary…Doesn’t that mean the cases of the New York Attorney General and the EC go flying out the window?
Carmi Levy: We may yet see pending cases in New York and Europe get tossed in the wake of this deal, but we’ll have to wait and see how each jurisdiction weighs in. It’s still early in that process, and it could take weeks or months before Intel gets the all clear in every venue where these is either current or pending litigation. Still, on the surface, it looks likely that Intel’s ability to offer non-exclusionary rebates cuts the legs out from virtually all cases against it.
Scott Fulton: Is the business world ready for the dull, boring reality of competition between equal innovators everywhere in the spirit of openness and (yawn!) friendship? (Or put more directly, won’t the rest of us in the media need to wake up to the new reality of business?)
Carmi Levy: I think it’s time we — both consumers as well as media, and while we’re at it, the litigants and vendors, too — moved on and paid more attention to what vendors do in the market with their products and services and less on what they’re up to in front of a judge. In Intel’s and AMD’s case, they bring us technology that powers the information economy. They both have finally woken up to the fallacy of devoting endless resources to legal action that doesn’t enhance their ability to design and market better products. Hopefully now they’ll both be able to get back to business — albeit an admittedly changed one.
And when they do, I think there’s still ample opportunity for these two companies to slug it out where it matters most: in the market at large. Without the weight of seemingly never-ending litigation dragging them both down, we can look forward to more innovation and fewer antagonistic press releases and court filings.
Which means journos like us may have to change our approach to coverage as well!
The concept of zero took ages for societies to recognize, let alone understand. Mike has explained before how it’s been a stumbling block in economics for some libertarian and “free market” types more recently. People who think about economics in terms of scarcity get upset when abundance pushes price down towards zero, as if the economic equation were broken. But if you flip the equation and think of it as a cost of zero, you realize that the trick is to use as much of those abundant goods as possible, adding value to complementary scarcities for which you can charge. Zero doesn’t break economics, it just requires a different approach.
But artists and other creators hit a different stumbling block than libertarians (libertarian artists aside…). Zero is a problem because they feel like their art is worthless; they aren’t hung up on scarcity, they’re hung up on “devaluation.” We’ve heard it from journalists. I hear it most often from fellow songwriters. The economic theory makes them feel as though their work is just viewed as some sort of cheap commodity. The thing is, value and price are not the same. Price is monetary value, but value is so much more than money. Price is what gets driven down to marginal cost, but value factors into the demand side of the equation. Expensive things aren’t necessarily valuable, and valuable things aren’t necessarily expensive. I value oxygen a lot, but it seems silly to pay for the air I breathe each minute, given the abundant supply.
More importantly, songwriters who get hung up on “devaluation” confuse recordings with music. They equate the two. A recording is not the song, it’s just an instance of it, and a digital audio file is just an instance of the recording. Equating these reduces music to recordings to files. As important as recordings are, there’s so much more to music. When you think of a song, do you think of the recording, or a memory you had connecting with the music? Do you think of the file and how much it cost, or the emotions, people and experiences that the music conjures up? The recordings are just a means through which we experience the music. Songwriters (of all people!) should know that the value in music is so much more than the price of a recording. It’s not devaluing music to give it away for free, but it can increase its value by allowing more people to connect with it, to know, love and understand it — to value it. It’s through that experience that music is valued, not price!
Ironically, the underlying concern ends up being economic — how will we make money? A price of zero for digital audio files doesn’t mean that no one values the songwriting profession, or that no one is willing to spend money on music and keep songwriters in business. Sharing digital audio files makes the music more valuable and leads to more opportunities for monetization. When you give music away and connect with an audience, the opportunity for monetization is in the associated scarcities — access, containers, community, merchandise, relationships, unique goods, the creation of new music, etc. — by giving people a reason to buy. Getting hung up on “devaluation” is a distraction from the opportunity — the necessity — to experiment with new business models.
So, can we please stop complaining that free means devalued?
Blaise Alleyne is an expert at the Insight Community. To get insight and analysis from Blaise Alleyne and other experts on challenges your company faces, click here.
Our office is situated within the Domestic Policy Council. This placement allows our office to have close interaction with governmental leadership on issues of importance to nonprofit organizations, from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to the President’s Budget.
The President has tasked this office with focusing on four special priorities: involving faith-based and neighborhood groups in the economic recovery, promoting responsible fatherhood, fostering interfaith cooperation and building common ground to reduce unintended pregnancies and the need for abortion, along with the White House Council on Women and Girls.
The Office also coordinates the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. This Advisory Council is a group of 25 leaders from both faith-based and non-sectarian organizations, each serving 1-year terms. The Advisory Council forms recommendations on how the Federal Government can more effectively partner with faith-based and neighborhood organizations.
The White House Office also coordinates and works with 11 Centers and 1 Strategic Advisor placed in Departments throughout government to implement the President’s priorities for this office. Each Center works to connect its own agency to local faith-based and neighborhood organizations. For example, our Center at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) connects local organizations and groups preparing to respond to disaster situations to the ongoing activities at DHS and FEMA. Our Center at the Department of Education works to connect that Department with local organizations to provide after-school programs. So each Center is an important link between the federal government and local neighborhood organizations.
Our job is to make sure that the Federal Government is coming into responsible interaction with local nonprofit organizations. We look forward to working with you on these priorities!
When investigating an intrusion in a Windows system, one of the first places to start is the Windows security log. Security event log is also very useful for analysis when searching for anomalies and possible intrusions.
Reading through a Windows security log or any other log can be very difficult and time consuming, so a lot of companies have created their own tools to analyze windows event logs. But before you start going commerical, there is a tool that will get you going without any cost. Against all odds, it’s a tool made by Microsoft!
The tool The tool in question is Microsoft Log parser. Log parser is a command line tool that provides universal query access to text-based data such as log files, XML files and CSV files, as well as key data sources on the Windows operating system such as the Event Log, the Registry, the file system, and Active Directory. So, you can use it to analyze most structured text based files and the eventlog and AD on a single computer.
You can query remote computers on the network, as long as the credentials that Log parser is running under can access the data sources on the remote computers.
For Security Log, you need to run Log Parser as administrator Note that this tool doesn’t collect data from multiple computers, it just analyzes data in a single file/single computer repository.
The improved interface In it’s original form, Log Parser is a command line tool, so it is not the most user friendly tool in the world. Also, it has no way of saving/storing your prepared queries so you can invoke them later. But a promising developer named Dimce Kuzmanov created a free frontend to Log parser called Log Parser Lizard.
Log Parser Lizard enables you to store the prepared queries, and organizes them by type of data source on which you wish to do an analysis. It also includes the ability to export results to Excel, autogenerates charts on the result of the executed query, or ability to export the queried subset into the original format from which the analysis was performed.
Analyzing the Security Log with Log Parser Lizard Using Log Parser Lizard for Security Log analysis is very simple. Choose the Queries button and select the Event Logs category, then create the queries that you need for your analysis. Here are some examples:
SELECT * FROM SECURITY – simple dump all data from the security log
SELECT EVENTID, COUNT(*) FROM SECURITY GROUP BY EVENTID – analyze what types of events appear in the security log and in what quantity
SELECT * FROM SECURITY WHERE EVENTID=’517′ – find whether the security log was cleared in Win2000/XP/2003
After you create the query, choose the apropriate category, then click the ‘Generate’ button to execute the query. You can also graph the results by choosing the Chart->Visible option.
Conclusion Analyzing the Security Log is always a useful approach to security controls, so you need to include it in your routine operations. And until you buy a SIEM system which will run an automatic and scheduled analysis, you should adopt a simple tool like Log Parser and Log Parser Lizard.
I love having the luxury of video capture on my iPhone 3GS, because it’s available to me anytime I need it. The only problem is, it’s either video or photo capture, so I’m potentially out of luck if I captured one and decidedly would have rather had the other. Yeah, I kind of like having my cake and eating it all in a single sitting too.
The good news — in this particular case at least — is that if you capture the event in video, you have a pretty good chance of getting decent still photos out of it when you’re through.
While this tip is aimed at iPhone 3GS users who can shoot their own video, it’s possible to use on any model when viewing video. The beauty of editing 3GS video that you’ve shot, is the frame scrubber that is made available for editing purposes. That feature just makes it a lot easier to pinpoint the image that you want to pull from the video content. (This becomes important when one frame is blurry, and the next is not.)
Once you’ve found the frame that you want to make into a photo in your iPhone album, we just need to capture it. For the best results, make sure the control bezels are hidden from the screen. Usually tapping the screen once will cause them to slide out of view. Then, to perform the screen capture, press and hold the Home button. While holding the Home button, click the Sleep button on top of the phone. You’ve now saved that movie frame to your photo library as a stand-alone picture file.
The quality of your resulting photo depends completely on the video that was captured first. If there are slow movements that limit or eliminate blur, that will give the best outcome to this process. It’s not a perfect solution, but it’s better than no photos from an event at all!
Jajaja! Major Nelson, of Xbox fame, sent his fellow Microsofties this big banner congratulating them on releasing Windows 7. One billion Achievement Points! I’ve had an Xbox 360 for three years now, and I only have around 5,000 such points. I guess I’m a failure.
OpenSUSE 11.2 viene con la última versión del Kernel Linux 2.6.31, El nuevo sistema de archivos Ext4 por defecto, las últimas versiones de los dos entornos de escritorio mas populares KDE 4.3, GNOME 2.28 y Xfce 4.6.1. Y a demás, los usuarios de KDE podrán disfrutar de la nueva integración de Firefox 3.5.3 y OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 con KDE4.
Update 2: Twitter says on the Twitter Status blog, "We’re working on a few problems related to the ongoing rollout. These should be resolved quickly and it will be back on for those who had the Retweet feature previously. And we’ll then continue the incremental rollout of this feature to everyone."
Update: There is an interesting post here from Twitter CEO Evan Williams, which talks about how the retweet button works, and why Twitter is doing it the way it is.
Original Article: Back in the summer time, Twitter announced that it intended to add a retweet option to its service and the API. Twitter is now rolling out the feature to a small percentage of Twitter users.
"You may remember that we shared the mechanics of this feature with developers a while back so they could think about how to work it into Twitter apps," says Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone on the company blog. "Now we’re ready to start trying it on Twitter. The plan is to see how it goes first with this small release. If it needs more work, then we’ll know right away. If things look good, we’ll proceed with releasing the feature in stages eventually arriving at 100%."
If you are a regular Twitter user, it’s pretty much a given that you know what retweeting is, but Stone describes what the button does to those in the dark. "Retweet is a button that makes forwarding a particularly interesting tweet to all your followers very easy," he says. "In turn, we hope interesting, newsworthy, or even just plain funny information will spread quickly through the network making its way efficiently to the people who want or need to know."
The Impact of Retweets
Retweets have already been a great way for content and updates to go viral. Now as the actual feature rolls out, that should only increase. Read this article for a look at the pros and cons of retweets (there are more pros).
Now that retweeting is becoming an actual feature of Twitter, you’re going to want to keep in mind the tweetability of your content. Shéa Bennett, who writes the blog Twittercism, came up with a helpful equation for maximizing retweet potential. We talked about that here, but basically what it boils down to is leaving enough room in a tweet to accommodate what others will add to it as they retweet it.
This means keep titles short (at least in the tweet). For example, if you use some form of "tweet this" button on an article that automatically fills out the Twitter form with the article info, make sure there are not too many characters taken up. As you’re probably aware, Twitter only allows for 140, and that’s not very many. Keep in mind the "RT," hashtags, usernames, etc.
Tweaking Twitter Trends
In another piece of Twitter-related news, the company also announced that it is experimenting with improvements to trends that will help users find more relevant tweets. They say they’re working to show higher quality results for trend queries by returning tweets that are more useful.
"The improvement won’t be very noticeable at first, but this is a small step toward unearthing more value in search and getting you more relevant results," says @JennaDawn.
This means you will probably see less spammy trending topics popping up, which should benefit anyone who follows the trends.
Getting the biggest batch
of take downs and near falls
in one match.
My opponent stalls.
Gasping for air in a defeated manner
because he’s out of shape.
The ref raising my hand like a victory banner.
My opponent hears my crowd jeering
when I pin him, they start cheering.
They hear the wrong moves of the crowd.
They think it’s alright to sit down
and wait for their match
Whether you think you can fight
or think you can’t –you’re right.
Famitsu.com has broken the news on a new entry in Taito’s Estpolis series. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, the series was released outside Japan as “…
Does the world really need fifty different ways to display the time? Or forty-five weather forecasting apps or a couple of hundred alarm clocks? At what point does the sheer size of the library become so large that successive additions become meaningless? I accept that there’s a certain value in choice — that in a tiny library, users would be ill-served by a product category with only a couple of feature-limited, badly integrated choices. A larger playground increases the size of the app-specific talent pool and ensures someone looking for an alarm clock will eventually find what he or she needs.
"Companies are looking for ways to break free from the business limitations imposed by a networking paradigm that has been dominated by a single vendor," said Dave Donatelli, executive vice president and general manager, Enterprise Servers and Networking, HP. "By acquiring 3Com, we are accelerating the execution of our Converged Infrastructure strategy and bringing disruptive change to the networking industry. By combining HP ProCurve offerings with 3Com’s extensive set of solutions, we will enable customers to build a next-generation network infrastructure that supports customer needs from the edge of the network to the heart of the data center."
